Wow, I’m really surprised they didn’t tell you the results right away! The test is instantaneous, the nurse told me the results while I was still sitting in the chair, right after they drew my blood. I hope that doesn’t mean it’s bad news! 🙁 I’ll be thinking about you!

I think because I don’t do sickening sweet things and definitely not orange soda, that drink really got to me. I was so grossed out. Lunch looks perfectly delicious and that salad definitely looks amazing!

Glad you made it through all that piercing! I hate needles too…
For the cherries, I absolutely LOVE cherries, but if I eat as many as in that bowl of yours… I will end up in the bathroom for the rest of the day. So I buy maybe 5 at a time, and I usually get stared at as if I have two heads! Oh, well…

I’m a licensed phlebotomist (although that’s not what I do now) and while I was getting my 100 clinical hours I had to do a few glucose tests. It was horrible having to poke someone repeatedly in the same spot for four hours. You have my sympathy.

Did you have to do the 1 hour test or the 4 hour? They made me do the 4 hour and I had to drink 100mg of sugar and then have a blood test each hour on the hour four times. It was horrible! For my current pregnancy, they had me do the 50mg of sugar glucose test at 9 weeks, so it’s wayyy done and over with thank goodness. I’m hoping that doesn’t mean I have another one coming up soon!!

Good thing you didn’t have to go through a bunch of fertility work ups in order to get pregnant! That requires multiple needle sticks throughout the process. I got to where it didn’t even phase me!
What in the heck is nutritional yeast?

I’m about 10 weeks pregnant and I have been craving fruits and salads – the colder and fresher, the better! It’s strange – I am overweight, so my goal is to gain 15lbs or less – but I’ve actually lost 7 lbs since getting pregant (not trying to lose weight – but my appetite is decreased – and with fruit/salad cravings I think I am consuming fewer calories overall).

Definitely NOT looking forward to that test. Ugh. Hope your results are good! I just have to wonder as an RD myself, how does drinking 50g of this fake sugary source of carbs affect someone who’s body is used to dealing with real food? I teach the nutritional part of GD classes, and it still baffles me when these girls come in with healthy weights, diets, and exercise habits. I know it’s all the crazy placenta hormones and not just lifestyle, but it still makes me wonder…

People who eat “real” food don’t metabolize sugar differently than those who eat more processed foods, unless they are in fact diabetic or have other metabolic/endocrine issues. You’re more likely to feel the effects of such a high amount of sugar if you aren’t used to it, like a racing pulse, a “buzz”, perhaps a blood sugar crash later, but you don’t physically process that sugar any differently.

As far as the resulting blood sugar reading, your body doesn’t care if those carbs are real or processed. In fact, pure manufactured glucose is preferred since even minimal fiber, protein, or fats in other foods will slow the blood sugar spike somewhat, leading to a flawed result.

I know, but it would be nice if a test was designed that took fat, protein, fiber into account. And regardless of how sugar is metabolized, it’s the form of eating the glucose that’s the problem – not the sugar itself.

Not totally sure I’m following you when you say it’s the form of eating the glucose that’s the problem?

It WOULD be nice, but doubt it will ever happen since different foods cause such a different reacting in different people. I work with CDEs, and train on insulin pumps…I’ve worn one myself on many occasions, and with the continuous glucose monitor have been able to watch my numbers rise and fall in real time. For me, peanut butter on wheat bread causes a much larger spike than a co-worker, whereas I metabolize fruit much better than she does! 😀 It would be almost impossible to standardize, and I doubt the medical community would even try to bother given it’s just one drink (maybe two depending on the initial result).

I had to do the 100g bolus for another medical condition, and test every hour for four hours on 16 hours no food, and I have to tell you, I spent the first five minutes feeling like the it was the first time my mom let me have orange pop at McDonalds, and the rest of the time feeling like I was going to die. I was so hungry for real food. Ugh.

What I would say about the reasons doctors use pure sugar like this is it’s already very hard to parse out how different foods affect different people; going to the lowest common denominator makes for the most clear diagnosis. No, it’s not very accurate to real life if you’re someone that eats very balanced meals, but it’s as standardized as you can safely get.